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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Clarion - Caught on Camera

London ‘worse than any other city’ for affordable housing planning delays

Some social housing developments in London have taken longer than two years to approve

Evening Standard

South London council approves controversial plans for 249 new homes

Critics say the approval of a 249-home social housing redevelopment is at odds with Merton Council’s own planning guidelines

Evening Standard

Noted swift nesting site destroyed by contractors in peak season

Campaigners say builders’ demolition of nest site highlights weak protection of wildlife from development

The Guardian - UK

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Fire Safety Scandal: Clarion Manager Caught on Leaked Recording Asking Staff to Fake Fire Safety Papers

Clarion Housing faces outrage after a leaked recording revealed a manager telling staff to falsify fire safety documents, reigniting scrutiny over the UK's social housing safety standards.

International Business Times UK

Guardian Australia’s Ben Smee joint winner of Queensland journalist of the year award

The Guardian’s Queensland correspondent and three SBS journalists win top award for investigation into children locked up in police watch houses

The Guardian - AU

UK housing associations accused of mis-selling ‘affordable’ homes as service charges soar by up to 400%

Buyers say they were misled over likely rise in costs after they moved in, which are now ‘ruining people’s lives’

The Guardian - UK

Woman forced to sleep on mat in living room as flat riddled with mould and damp

Tracy Nilsson said she felt ‘less than a human being’ during years-long battle with her housing association to carry out repairs

The Independent UK

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Largest UK housing association fined for failing to fix child’s bedroom window for four years

The severely delayed repair led to parts of home developing mould, housing watchdog says

The Independent UK

Cockroaches, leaks and asbestos – my living conditions were shameful. So I named and shamed the culprits

When I shared complaints about my housing on social media, they went viral, and I began hearing from people in similar circumstances. It changed the course of my life, writes Kwajo Tweneboa

The Guardian - UK

'Terrified' London family evicted from home on day daughter started exams

A single mother of four, whose son has a disability and whose daughter was sitting GCSE exams, has been evicted from her Merton house

Evening Standard

Tenant sues landlord claiming UK flat was sublet as he was stranded abroad

Social housing resident Filippe Scalora alleges a stranger moved into his flat while he was stranded abroad

The Guardian - UK

Family of tenant who killed himself over noise accuse landlord of ‘gross failings’

Exclusive: Relatives reveal landlord Clarion continued to demand rent four months after Mark Pearce’s death

The Guardian - UK

Man killed himself after 'dismissive' landlord failed to resolve 18 noise complaints

The man slept on air bed in his kitchen to avoid noise from neighbours upstairs

Evening Standard

Tenant killed himself after landlord failed to resolve repeated noise complaints

Ombudsman orders UK housing association Clarion to apologise to family in ‘deeply distressing’ case

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The Independent UK

Housing association slammed as tenant takes own life after 18 noise complaints

Clarion Housing Association has apologised for its failings over what Housing Ombudsman Richard Blakeway said was a ‘deeply distressing’ case

Birmingham Post

Businesses and public sector join forces to drive investment in Kirklees

Leeds-based law firm Clarion brought together leading figures at the roundtable event

Daily Mirror

Residents fume as they face being fined £100 for parking outside their own homes

People living in Caxton Close, in Tenterden, Kent, claim that those with parking permits have been wrongly fined by automatic cameras and nobody has helped them fight the fixed penalty notices

Daily Mirror

'My mushroom-infested flat is ruining my life and left me with £5,000 energy bills'

The mum, from Epsom in Surrey, says that living in the property is causing her a huge financial burden, forcing her to spend weekends working alongside her day job to support her family

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Wales Online

'This house has ruined my life' Mum-of-three's 'nightmare' as energy bill soars to £5,000 a year

The mum says the house is infested with mould and mushrooms are growing in areas

Bristol Post

Flagship Bristol housing development delayed by another year

Two years ago it was where Marvin Rees took Sir Keir Starmer to show how Bristol was building new homes

Manchester Evening News

'We're living in a raw sewage and rat-infested hell - we fear for our kids'

Worried housing association tenants have made more than 15,000 complaints in the last three years

Daily Mirror

Giant rats and raw sewage 'hell' spark fear for kids' health due to mould and damp

A Sunday Mirror investigation has revealed there were 15,000 complaints about disrepair with tenants worried about rat infestations, raw sewage and health problems caused by mould

The Guardian - UK

Rats, mould, damp: one woman’s story reveals the ugly truth about the UK’s biggest housing association

A mother of three’s struggle with Clarion over her squalid home reflects a system rigged to favour asset-owners while renters are abandoned, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Independent UK

Mother and daughter driven from mouldy home for three years back in temporary housing days after return

Sabrena Rahman, 40, and her 13-year-old daughter were told their flat had been fully refurbished - but within days they were forced to leave again

Bristol Post

Heavily pregnant mum told to ‘wash from a kettle’ in home left without heating for days

The Bristol mum is just days away from giving birth to her third child

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